Anyone who has tried to play this game with a keyboard knows that the options for rebinding your controls are very limited. As a workaround, we can use remapping software like Autohotkey, reWASD, and UCR to change the keyboard controls. For a while, I thought autohotkey or reWASD was the best we could do to play this collection, but there is one more alternative. This alternative method will allow us to remap the keyboard controls by using a dinput8.dll hacking tool called "DINPUT key switcher" (all credit goes to the author of this tool).

The advantage of this method vs remapping software is that once you set it up, it is built into the game. No need to install any 3rd party drivers (UCR), pay for any software (reWASD), manually write/execute a script (autohotkey), or have any external programs running just to have the keyboard bindings you want.

First, download the DINPUT key switcher tool. Go to the tool's github here [github.com] and download the zip file from the 'Code' dropdown.


Once you open the zip file, navigate to the folder where the configuration tool is located (\DINPUT-key-switcher-master\DINPUT8 key switcher\DINPUT key switcher\bin\Release).


Copy or extract both of the files ("dinput8.dll" and "dinput8 key switcher.exe") to where steam installed the game (for instance "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mega Man X Legacy Collection\" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2\").


Run the "dinput key switcher.exe" file (verified that it is safe already via windows defender) and use the tool to configure the controls.

For reference, here are the default controls for X1-X3.


Once it is configured to your liking, click 'Save and exit'.



Now when you run the game (make sure the tool is closed first), your keyboard controls are automatically applied. If you need to modify the controls again, simply re-run the tool, make the changes, and click Save and exit again. The only bug I noticed with this tool is that I am unable to map spacebar (in-game menu) to Enter, but I found that it works fine with most other keys (I have spacebar mapped to '1' on my keyboard).

Thanks to the author of DINPUT key switcher for giving us this solution.